Yoko Shimomura's 25th anniversary album, memória!, will be out next month to celebrate all of her beautiful & timeless compositions for games produced by Square Enix. The official music page for memória! updated today, giving fans a preview of the orchestrated version of "Vector to the Heavens", one of Shimomura's most memorable tracks from Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. You can listen to the preview below:

Along with "Vector to the Heavens", the 25th anniversary album will include songs from Super Mario RPG, Live A Live, the Mana series, and more. Here is the list of songs announced so far:

I might buy memória just for this. Vector to the Heavens has always been one of my favorite songs in the KH series and now I love it even more! Shimomura has and always will be one of my favorite composers.

You'd think that out of all of the KH songs, she'd do Dearly Beloved. But that has been done to death anyway, and since Vector is one of my favorite songs from Days, this is a pleasant surprise.
i'm still waiting for an orchestrated version of Musique pour la tristesse de Xion though

You'd think that out of all of the KH songs, she'd do Dearly Beloved. But that has been done to death anyway, and since Vector is one of my favorite songs from Days, this is a pleasant surprise.
i'm still waiting for an orchestrated version of Musique pour la tristesse de Xion though

There will probably two or three more KH tracks announced so we'll see. Drammatica had four KH tracks.

I still like how "Musique porla tristesse de Xion" was handled on the Piano Collection. It mixed "Vector to the Heavens" and "Dearly Beloved" in and made it feel like a complete suite. I'd love to see an orchestral version do something similar.

Dearly Beloved needs a compilation version. One that can mix all of the Dearly Beloved together in one beautiful way.

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